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Reckoning with mortality and the flowering of new love are the two things that motivated this album, turning the ‘rough kuduro’ of \u003cem\u003eGuerrilla\u003c\/em\u003e inside out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike his debut, this is a deep sound world, but in contrast to its grit and realness, \u003cem\u003eDemilitarize\u003c\/em\u003e is genuinely dreamy. The arc of the album describes shedding the armour of trauma and surrendering to this new situation. A constant and unexpected aspect of \u003cem\u003eDemilitarize\u003c\/em\u003e is Nazar's gentle, submerged vocal. Insistent and mantra-like, it’s like a cross between Elisabeth Frazer, Arthur Russell and Frank Ocean, and the music is fragile and opaque in response.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNazar says - 'With the album being introspective, I didn't seek to capture sounds from real places to enhance it’s universe like on \u003cem\u003eGuerilla\u003c\/em\u003e. I wanted to make it almost metaphysical like creating sci-fi, with classic cyberpunk anime ‘Ghost In The Shell’ being a core inspiration.' The rhythms of kuduro are still here, but move around his voice like fish around a swimmer. The precise sound design on \u003cem\u003eDemilitarize\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates from different angles. Chords spiral, ripple and shoot through the beats giving tracks the loosest of settings. Songs disassemble and vocals float off-centre. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDemilitarize\u003c\/em\u003e insists you zoom in, listen closely, tune into Nazar's rare vibration. 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